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As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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